Title
SLCC, Unit 2 Project Description, English 2010
Creator
SLCC Department of English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies
Publisher
SLCC Department of English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies
Date
2016
Course Number and Name
English 2010: Intermediate Writing
Assignment Name
The Information Effect
Assignment Description
The Information Effect assignment will give you an opportunity to explore an issue of personal importance to you through a genre that is publically directed and focused on information—data, statistics, along with some interpretation of that information—arranged in a way that helps the reader to understand both the details and the big picture of your researched topic. A piece of writing focused around an information purpose forwards or emphasizes a relatively neutral tone, strategies of objectivity and fairness, and organizational strategies that seek to clarify, sequence, and arrange in a way that helps a reader in the ways described above. Your information effect project can, depending on the medium you choose, have varying lengths: if you choose an infographic, the page count might be shorter than in a more text-based standard report, for instance. You should plan to make substantive use of 4-6 sources in the piece; a text-based piece should be between 4-6 pages long, with multimedia or heavily visual pieces perhaps somewhat shorter (in terms of page count).